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(70) Horse and rider in front of the Ayyanar temple at the foot of the Ummanamalai hill.
(71) Earthen horses in front of the same temple.
(72) Rock cut Jain images near Pechchi-pallam on the same hill.
(73) Rock-cut Jain images near Pechchi-pallam on the same hill.
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At Muttuppatti:
(74) Rock-cut Jain images on the hill.
(75) Another Jain image lying in the same place.
P. 75. Drawings:
(53) Kilakkudi: Sculpture in the Settippodavu cavern, on the hill; Probable age : 8th [?] century A. D.
Pp. 76-80. Caverns and Jain images at Kongar-Poliyangulam on the border of the Madura taluq.
Jain images at Muttuppatti, a hamlet of Vadapalangy in the Madura district.
The natural cave called Settippodavu in the hollow of the Ummanamalai hill was either a Jain temple or hermitage (palli) presided over by the teacher Gunasenapperadigal. Figures of Jain ascetics in the siddhasana posture with their attendant deities. A Jain image seated on a high pedestal. Existence of Jain images and Vatteluttu inscriptions on the top of the hill at a spot known as Pechchipallam.
Row of six Jain figures near Kilavalavu, six miles from Melur.
Existence of Jain figures and beds together with Brahmi records in one and the same cavern is an indication of the cavern being occupied by the Buddhists and its subsequent appropriation by the Jains.
An early Jain record of the Pallava period.
P. 111. Jain temple called Nakhara.-Jinalaya at Mudigondam.
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